{"id":164,"date":"2019-05-16T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:24:44","slug":"tough-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/tough-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the car facing the other way in the garage so I can do the last brake rebuild&#8230;LR corner.<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, the lugnuts had other ideas. \u00a0Apparently I haven\u2019t had this wheel off before, and it\u2019s on there good.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who put these lug nuts on or what they used but&#8230; I got 4 loosened after a ***lot*** of work, but #5 is not budging. I put a cross lug wrench on and stood on it and bounced to get some of them off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5C54887A-7601-4354-99B8-8A8ACE54B959-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5C54887A-7601-4354-99B8-8A8ACE54B959-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5C54887A-7601-4354-99B8-8A8ACE54B959.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far I\u2019ve broken a socket extension, a socket adapter, and a socket. Nuthin. Tried the cross lug wrench, an 18\u201d breaker bar, an impact driver, several BFHs, and the dreaded pipe extension on the ratchet. Nuthin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BE0904B3-D49D-4000-AA09-292DA46A05D3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BE0904B3-D49D-4000-AA09-292DA46A05D3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BE0904B3-D49D-4000-AA09-292DA46A05D3.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/E714AF61-0CAF-4A90-B71F-9EFC5B5C4EC2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/E714AF61-0CAF-4A90-B71F-9EFC5B5C4EC2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/E714AF61-0CAF-4A90-B71F-9EFC5B5C4EC2.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/28E74934-49DC-4C5C-BFDD-77E0D3088585-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/28E74934-49DC-4C5C-BFDD-77E0D3088585-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/28E74934-49DC-4C5C-BFDD-77E0D3088585.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#5 is starting to round off, so I&#8217;m worried I may have to resort to cutting. \u00a0Shot it with wd40 in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the car facing the other way in the garage so I can do the last brake rebuild&#8230;LR corner. unfortunately, the lugnuts had other ideas. \u00a0Apparently I haven\u2019t had this wheel off before, and it\u2019s on there good. I don\u2019t know who put these lug nuts on or what they used but&#8230; I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}